Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banged and buffeted by storms that stood her on end and ripped her tail, the British dirigible R-100 last week completed, twelve hours later than expected, her long-deferred flight from Cardington, England to St. Hubert Airport, Montreal. Largest lighter-than-air craft in the world, fourth to fly the Atlantic, the R-100 made the crossing in 78 hr. 49 min.- She carried 37 officers & crew, seven passengers, including her designer, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney...
...great ship was winding up the St. Lawrence valley toward Quebec when fabric covering her port stabilizer finally yielded to the whipping of the wind and tore loose-a mishap similar to that which befell the Graf Zeppelin on her first Atlantic flight. Without parachutes, members of the R-100's crew crawled precariously about the tattered fin, made makeshift repairs...
Beyond sportsmanlike plaudits for the R-100's victory over the storm (which the officers and crew tried to minimize) there was little public fervor shown over the flight. Apathy may have been due partly to British propaganda emphasizing the experimental aspect of the venture. But also was expressed dissatisfaction that the Air Ministry's $11,000,000 program (the R-100 cost $2,250,000) begun six years ago for linking distant units of the empire, should still be so far short of fulfilment. Enthusiasm had been dampened by mishaps to the R-100 and its sister...
Toothpaste. Since early this year, Kolynos Co. of New Haven, Conn, (which annually hands out thousands of little yellow tubes of toothpaste at Yale football games) fondled the idea of stimulating its South American trade with a publicity flight. The Stinson monoplane K, it was planned, would fly nonstop 9,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, refueling in the air en route. After weeks of persistent misadventure, the K took off from New Haven two months ago, landed the same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow...
...Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator aboard Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between Roosevelt Field and Harbor Grace, N. F. in December 1927. The plane was to have attempted a flight to Denmark. Frank Goldsborough qualified for his pilot's license last November, established a junior record for transcontinental flight two months ago (TIME...